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8/11/2012

Mario Correa

Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

They are paintings: hand mixed oil and enamel on un-stretched muslin, made upright by the walls they hang on. Their construction is self-reflexively reductive, with rough edges, exposed hanging apparatuses, and layered paint.

They are prints: each work is generated through a variation of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black) color passes, creating a field of reveals and overlays, muscled on to the muslin substrate by the weight of Correa’s body. The wood printing blocks themselves are made from discarded worktables, broken from hours and hours of use.

They are pictures: of labor, of repeated gestures, of task-based work. Made during his employment as a woodworker, each line captures the route of a drill, router, chisel, or saw over his Masonite work-surface. With this series Correa eschews his previous investigations in mark making (where the mechanics of the artist’s gesture – measured, deft, awkward, or random – were made as an extension of the body) in favor of the surplus marks of a different kind of work, the byproduct of a different kind of labor.

They are about removing space: between the works and the gallery walls; between the layers of paint and the raw canvas; between Correa’s day job and his practice; between the paintings and the bookshelves, cabinets, tables, chairs, beds… that formed them.

Mario Correa was born in Brawley, CA, in 1976. He received his MFA from California Institute for the Arts in 2001. Mario called us at the gallery the day after Michael Asher passed away; he shared that this show, or any of his shows, could not have been made without what he learned from Michael both as an artist and a teacher. We at the gallery feel the same way.

Opening reception: Friday, November 9, 7 – 9pm

Redling Fine Art
6757 Santa Monica Blvd -Los Angeles
Hours: tue-sat 10-5pm
Free admission

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